Department of Defense Appropriations for ..., Parts 3-4

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Page 186 - EPITAPH ON AN ARMY OF MERCENARIES These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. Their shoulders held the sky suspended; They stood, and earth's foundations stay; What God abandoned, these defended, And saved the sum of things for pay.
Page 394 - The mission of the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps is to provide by a permanent system of training and instruction in essential naval subjects at civil educational institutions a source from which qualified officers may be obtained for the Navy and the Marine Corps, and the Naval Reserve and the Marine Corps Reserve.
Page 75 - ... units effectively organized, trained, and equipped in time of peace for rapid mobilization, expansion, and deployment; such units to be of the types and numbers to meet the requirement of the Army," and also "additional qualified personnel for necessary replacement and expansion of the Army.
Page 146 - Training Corps, under the appropriation "Reserve personnel, Navy," which we call "RPN." The estimates presented for these appropriations are based upon projections for naval force objectives and policies approved by the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations. I shall treat each of the two appropriations separately, beginning with "Military personnel, Navy.
Page 241 - Reserve components is to provide trained units and qualified persons available for active duty in the Armed Forces, in time of war or national emergency and at such other times as the national security requires...
Page 368 - Retired pay, Department of Defense." This appropriation provides for (1) the pay of retired military personnel on the retired lists of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force...
Page 363 - The Fleet Reserve category is composed of Navy and Marine Corps enlisted personnel having 20 but less than 30 years of service who elect to transfer from active duty to the Fleet. Reserve. Upon completion of 30 years...
Page 84 - Since Au-gust of 1961, all commissioned ROTC graduates have been ordered to 2 years of active duty with the Army. This is expected to continue for the foreseeable future, including the higher commission level of 14,000 for which the MS-III input in this fiscal year 1965 budget provides.
Page 2 - DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION It is important to realize the depth of echelon encompassed by the term "departmental administration." Instructions for reporting personnel so engaged carry the following definition : , . . That force which is engaged in the continuous centralized direction and administration of the total resources and personnel of a single military department or of the Department of Defense.

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